commons-jcs-core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs3/auxiliary/disk/jdbc/dsfactory/DataSourceFactory.java

package org.apache.commons.jcs3.auxiliary.disk.jdbc.dsfactory;

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import java.sql.SQLException;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.apache.commons.jcs3.auxiliary.disk.jdbc.JDBCDiskCacheAttributes;


/**
 * A factory that returns a DataSource.
 * Borrowed from Apache DB Torque
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:jmcnally@apache.org">John McNally</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:fischer@seitenbau.de">Thomas Fischer</a>
 * @version $Id: DataSourceFactory.java 1336091 2012-05-09 11:09:40Z tfischer $
 */
public interface DataSourceFactory
{
    /**
     * Key for the configuration which contains DataSourceFactories
     */
    String DSFACTORY_KEY = "dsfactory";

    /**
     *  Key for the configuration which contains the fully qualified name
     *  of the factory implementation class
     */
    String FACTORY_KEY = "factory";

    /**
     * @return the name of the factory.
     */
    String getName();

    /**
     * @return the <code>DataSource</code> configured by the factory.
     * @throws SQLException if the source can't be returned
     */
    DataSource getDataSource() throws SQLException;

    /**
     * Initialize the factory.
     *
     * @param config the factory settings
     * @throws SQLException Any exceptions caught during processing will be
     *         rethrown wrapped into a SQLException.
     */
    void initialize(JDBCDiskCacheAttributes config)
        throws SQLException;

    /**
     * A hook which is called when the resources of the associated DataSource
     * can be released.
     * After close() is called, the other methods may not work any more
     * (e.g. getDataSource() might return null).
     * It is not guaranteed that this method does anything. For example,
     * we do not want to close connections retrieved via JNDI, so the
     * JndiDataSouurceFactory does not close these connections
     *
     * @throws SQLException Any exceptions caught during processing will be
     *         rethrown wrapped into a SQLException.
     */
    void close()
        throws SQLException;
}